Open Source Messaging Application Development - Building and Extending Gaim

Sean Egan - Collection The Expert's Voice in Open Source

360 pages, parution le 31/03/2005

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Résumé

Five years ago when I made my first contributions to the Gaim instant messaging client, I knew nothing about programming graphical user interfaces. Nor about networking. I didn't even know C, the language Gaim is written in. I knew, though, that I wanted to work on it, and with every small contribution I made, I learned more and more about programming. Today I'm the maintainer of the Gaim project, where a team of about 10 core developers and over 200 contributors provides approximately one million users with a stable, functional, easy-to-use networked desktop application.

One of the questions I get asked most often is "how do I get started with open source development?" This book is my answer to that question. In it I share my knowledge of open source development techniques and tools. I explain GUI programming with the cross-platform GTK+ toolkit. I explain how to communicate over the Internet with sockets. I explain internationalization, portability, network protocols, and other topics, offering my own insight throughout. Each topic is presented to you in the same way I learned it: using Gaim as an example. Each topic is illustrated with actual code from Gaim and with practical and fun Gaim plug-ins written specifically to demonstrate certain techniques.

One of the most important freedoms of free software is the freedom to study how a program works. This freedom has allowed me to build my knowledge upon the efforts of other, more experienced developers before me. After reading this book, I hope you can build your knowledge upon mine.

L'auteur - Sean Egan

Sean Egan maintains the Gaim project, http://gaim.sourceforge.net. He is a major contributor to the project, managing a team of ten core developers, and reviewing and incorporating patches.

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About the Author
About the Technical Reviewer
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Getting Started
The Open Source Development Process
Development Tools
Programming Gaim
GTK+ Basics
Advanced GTK+
Sockets
Protocol Plug-Ins
Internationalization
Portability
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	Sean Egan
Collection	The Expert's Voice in Open Source
Parution	31/03/2005
Nb. de pages	360
Format	17,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	742g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781590594674
ISBN13	978-1-5905-9467-4